Word: dominione
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...retired, will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for a day. That day, Dec. 9, will be spent 11,600 feet above sea level, at the battlefield of Ayacucho, Peru. He will represent the U. S. at the official centenary of that battle which freed South America of Spanish dominion...
Exiled for his opposition to the Imperial Government, he spent 16 years in Siberia, came to Canada when the members of his sect were invited by the Dominion Government to settle the wastes of Saskatchewan. Since this settlement, the properties of the Doukhobors have come to be worth over...
...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
...impression prevails in many quarters that the United States is seeking world dominion. In the eyes of Europeans, if there is anyone who ought to know, it is Sir Auckland Geddes, former British ambassador to Washington. When, therefore, he says in his Page Memorial lecture that the British Pacific dominions "are apt to look to Washington, and Washington with inviting eyes looks back on them." the authority of his voice will seem to establish the fact. Speaking from the same platform from which Premier Baldwin urges a proper solution of Anglo-American relations, one seems to hear the convincing roar...
...reap the benefits of domestic power, and sends his turbulent rivals a-tourneying with the swarthy Saladdins of the Sahara, with the possibility of martial glory and the certainty of political annihilation. He prays that his noisy King Richards may not return to plague him in his uncertain dominion over the restless liberals of Spain. He has even adopted the knightly tradition of conquering an enemy by joining forces with him: Raisull, a chieftain whom he could not defeat, he makes governor, even at the expense of pillaging a few Christians. Praise be to the shades of Walter Scott that...